Michael S. Kochin 🗑️ מיכאל קוצ'ין

politics, rhetoric, literature, film. Co-author of An Independent Empire: Diplomacy & War in the Making of the United States.

[Michael S. Kochin 🗑️ מיכאל קוצ'ין @mskochin]

A country is a country (from 2017).
Happy 4th of July!
https://t.co/74pOk30i9S

[Michael S. Kochin 🗑️ מיכאל קוצ'ין @mskochin]

@TomWigand Every day in every way I am making the Overton Window wider & wider

[Michael S. Kochin 🗑️ מיכאל קוצ'ין @mskochin]

an opportunity for Democrats to show their common sense and patriotism by nominating a more reliable advocate for MAGA than Sen. Collins

[Clay Travis @ClayTravis]

Platner drops out. Now Maine is going to let 600 Democrat party insiders pick the new candidate, replacing the guy that 156,000 people voted for. Just like the party kicked Biden to the curb and replaced him with Kamala. Tell me again which party is a threat to democracy.

[Apple Lamps @lamps_apple]

A reminder that E. Jean Carroll publicly positioned herself as a devoted Trump admirer until he ran for president, then immediately branded him a threat to democracy. She emailed her central witness to outline a scheme and pressed her to perform their "patriotic duty." Weeks later she began writing the book that contained her allegations against him.

When asked what the scheme actually was, Carroll claimed it involved a stuffed animal squirrel. The judge accepted the explanation, despite it not making any sense at all.

That witness testified Carroll called her right after the supposed assault inside the Bergdorf Goodman dressing room. No one saw the billionaire at the peak of his fame enter or exit the store, and neither Carroll nor the witness could name the year, leaving Trump with no ability to provide an alibi.

Carroll lied under oath about outside funding for her lawsuit. She concealed that Democrat billionaire Reid Hoffman, a close friend and advisor to Jeffrey Epstein who regularly visited Little St. James island, had paid her lawyers nearly $7.5 million.

During the trial the same witness texted her daughter that Carroll had taken the matter too far and was behaving like a drug addict whose drug was herself. After Carroll told her New York had passed a law enabling her suit against Trump, a statute lobbied for by Hoffman, the witness texted that Carroll was celebrating something that had never actually happened and was in disbelief Carroll had taken it to the level she has.

Carroll sued Trump for defamation, claiming his denial that she was lying caused a 50% drop in paid readership of her blog. On that blog she had published accounts of anal sex with dogs, becoming excited while watching anal rape scenes with her mother, calculating how many calories were in cum, and sharing what her Dogs taught her about sex. Carroll claimed she was a sex expert. She told the jury and judge that after the alleged incident with Trump she could no longer have sex and the experience was the sole reason she hasn't had sex since the alleged incident 30-35 years (she never remembered the year)

This is what democrats celebrate.

Get in their way and they will do it to you.

[Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry @pegobry_en]

There's a very easy fix, that the Admin implemented and judges blocked, which is slapping a $100K fee on every H-1B application. Companies will only spend that on the "stars" that they tell us the program was originally designed to attract.

[Paul @WomanDefiner]

It's actually insane that US corporations can fire Americans and hire foreigners at a reduced price. That being legal is the biggest sign that our politicians all need to be replaced.

[Michael S. Kochin 🗑️ מיכאל קוצ'ין @mskochin]

And when trying to pitch the Disney movie Frozen to me, people tell me how awesome it is because the handsome prince turns out to be a real douchebag in the end! As if that is some sort of fantastic literary innovation. They don’t seem to notice that they are talking to, you know, a bona fide handsome-prince type. That’s the kind of character I identify with, after all. And when writers use that stock character as a punching bag, then wipe their feet on him, I naturally take it a little personally.
—Jeffro Johnson

[Michael S. Kochin 🗑️ מיכאל קוצ'ין @mskochin]

Every day in every way I am making the Overton Window larger and larger.

[Michael S. Kochin 🗑️ מיכאל קוצ'ין @mskochin]

an opportunity for Democrats to show their common sense and patriotism by nominating a more reliable advocate for MAGA than Sen. Collins

[Michael S. Kochin 🗑️ מיכאל קוצ'ין @mskochin]

@DrewPavlou @BetterScotus If your state has admitted families like that of Henry Nowak's killer, it is failed.

[Michael S. Kochin 🗑️ מיכאל קוצ'ין @mskochin]

The Jews freed Palestine in 1948 and changed its name back to the precolonial "Israel"

[LT Jonathan Kendrick @PlisskenPatriot]

It’s always funny talking about the job market with boomers and even older Gen Xers. Guy at work is late 50s, the topic of job applications came up. He told me he’s only applied to 5 or 6 jobs in his entire life. I told him I have like 10-15 job applications out and pending as we speak. I’ve applied to hundreds and hundreds of jobs in my life and I’m 25. Many millennials and Gen Z are in the same boat. He was utterly shocked. Couldn’t even comprehend it.

It’s a totally different country than even 30 years ago. That’s what happens when you flood the country with 100 million foreigners and make upward mobility basically illegal for White men.

[Michael S. Kochin 🗑️ מיכאל קוצ'ין @mskochin]

Christianity is a role-playing game.

[Bennett's Phylactery @extradeadjcb]

reads like a caricature of homeschooler nightmare but the Brazilian government will literally jail you for not raising sluts

[Local Historian @LMFHistorian]

County GOP guy I know decently well wants to run for local office next year (treasurer, assessor, that kind of level). He's 55ish & runs his own professional business. The party honchos, in their 70's & 80's, refer to him as a young man & openly criticize his lack of experience.

[Michael S. Kochin 🗑️ מיכאל קוצ'ין @mskochin]

מאחר שממשלת נתניהו ניסתה ונכשלה בניסיונה להפוך את המערכת לדמוקרטית יותר באמצעות הכפפת בתי המשפט לרשות המחוקקת ולשלטון החוק, עלינו להפסיק לחזור על הקלישאה ש" נתניהו חותר תחת המוסדות הדמוקרטיים." במבנה המשטר הנוכחי של ישראל יש קווי דמיון מבניים לרפובליקה האסלאמית, שכן שירותי הביטחון כפופים באופן מובהק לשלטון המשפטנים. למעשה, חולשה של הרצון החילוני שתוביל ליוריסטוקרטיה דתית (בדומה לזו שבאיראן) נראית כעת סבירה יותר – גם אם היא עדיין בלתי סבירה כשלעצמה – מאשר שהיוריסטוקרטיה הנוכחית תיחלש ותוביל למעבר לדמוקרטיה רחבה יותר.

[Michael S. Kochin 🗑️ מיכאל קוצ'ין @mskochin]

If Platner has not covered up his SS tattoo with an SA tattoo, he might have survived the Night of Long Knives.

[AJ Edelman @realajedelman]

Who would have even thought that the Senate Candidate with the Nazi tattoo, active account on a predator platform, multiple allegations of fantasizing about raping people... Would be accused of impropriety?

Graham Platner. The candidate exemplar of Mamdani and Bernie's new Democratic party.

[The🐰FOO @PolitiBunny]

Millions of us support the Second Amendment.
You didn't listen.

Millions of us don't want you raising our taxes.
You didn't listen.

Millions of us support the Electoral College.
You didn't listen.

Millions of us want our energy costs to go down.
You didn't listen.

Millions of us want illegals out of our state.
You didn't listen.

Millions of us want our daughters to be safe in locker rooms and bathrooms.
You didn't listen.

Shall I go on?

[Batya Ungar-Sargon @bungarsargon]

The Nazi tattoo should have been enough. A lot of us won't ever forget that it wasn't.

[John Ocasio-Rodham Nolte @NolteNC]

Dear Democrats and corporate media:

We will never let you forget that a Nazi tattoo wasn’t enough to disqualify him.

Never.